Thomas provides a detailed review, and the piece that stuck out for me is the process for connecting your phone to a computer, which is: a) difficult compared to the iPhone and b) slightly different between carriers.

One sweet 2.2 feature I remember Google announcing at IO is that if you have a Google account, your Android data (apps, photos, etc.) will be stored in the cloud, allowing for a seamless move between Android phones.

I also suspect there are ways to use Picasa to avoid the connection issue Thomas faced.

Anyway, add your thoughts in comments.

Update: I forgot to mention a pet peeve I have with Android hardware, i.e. the physical button bars are different between hardware manufacturers. Motorola has actual, tacile buttons, whereas HTC does not, and the order of the buttons is different. On HTC, it’s home, menu, back, search. On the Droid, it’s back, menu, home, search.

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“Why can’t they agree on a convention?”Firstly because some people may prefer it one way, and others another. I'd prefer a full, tactile QWERTY keyboard. But someone else wants a more physically compact device. A major selling point of Android is that you can choose the hardware that you want.

Anyway a convention would end up like the Martian headphones described by Spolsky. Someone would invent a fifth button and then they'd all disagree where to put it, what size it would be and what actually happens when you press it.